David Phillips, an accomplished concert
pianist, is notable for performances
exhibiting a surprising range of technical
mastery coupled with an artist's ear for
distinct, intelligent, and finely nuanced
interpretations. Critical accolades have
been generous throughout his extensive,
world-wide, performance career. According to
The New York Times, Phillips offered, "a
tone that alternated between crystalline and
gentle singing, as needed, with currents of
courtly elegance and playful subversion
intertwined." San Francisco Chronicle
called him, "Brilliant" and
"among the most persuasive Beethoven
interpreters of our time." The Boston
Globe wrote, "...Phillips is among the
best Mozart players of his generation..."
and "…he played with a lucent, buoyant
tone, impeccable taste, imagination, style,
humor and originality."

Mr. Phillips deft interpretations of
composers as varied as Mozart, Beethoven and
Schubert have garnered him wide acclaim and
invitations to appear with notable
institutions such as The Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, The London Philharmonic, The St.
Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, The San
Antonio Symphony and The Dubrovnik Symphony.
He has performed under such conductors as
Zubin Mehta, Sir Colin Davis, Kurt
Sanderling, Ruben Asatrian, Michael Morgan,
Vincent Zitto, Zlatan Srzic. Mr. Phillips
has also performed in venerable concert
halls such as: Musikverein, Vienna; The
Royal Festival Hall, London; Khachiturian
Hall, Armenia; Rector's Palace, Croatia. In
the US, he performed at Carnegie Hall, The
Warton Center for The Performing Arts,
Lansing, Michigan; Watson Fine Arts Center
Theater, San Antonio Texas; Krannert Center
for the Performing Arts, Champaign-Urbana,
Illinois, The Yachats Music Festival,
Oregon, and many others.

Phillips' mastery of the piano has also
been noted by the U.S. Department of State.
Its Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs invited him to appear on
international tours to Armenia and Croatia,
Brazil, Chile, Argentina, China, and Hong
Kong. In addition to performing solo
recitals on these tours, Phillips appeared
as a soloist with both the Armenian
Philharmonic and the Dubrovnik Symphony. He
also led master classes at the Sayat Nova
Music Academy and the Zagreb Conservatory in
Croatia.

Recently, Phillips performed on the Rite
of Spring Great Performers Concert series in
New York City. He has also given solo
recitals at the Old First Concert Series in
San Francisco, Florida’s Key West Pops
Orchestra, the Donnell Library Concert
Series as well as Trinity Concert Series,
both in New York City.

Mr. Phillips has led master classes at
notable schools such as Yale University,
Eastman School of Music, University of
Illinois, Sayat Nova Music Academy in
Armenia, among others. Mr. Phillips was the
winner of two concerto competitions, The
Juilliard School’s Concerto Competition, and
the University of Michigan’s Student
concerto competition.

David Phillips is a graduate of the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and New
York's The Juilliard School. He was the
recipient of a full scholarship at both
schools. He has studied under Daniel and
Marilyn Eller, Alfred Brendel, Dady Mehta,
Peter Serkin, Arthur Balsam, and Jeanne
Stark-Iochmanns.